About the Product

From this interactive online course - designed especially for new and inexperienced coaches - you'll learn to prepare for your season, provide the best possible experience for your athletes, and coach baseball the Ripken Way. This course was developed solely for coaches affiliated with Babe Ruth League and Cal Ripken Baseball and contains content provided by coaching experts at Ripken Baseball not found anywhere else. It's informative, engaging, challenging, and fun!

Guided by mentor coach Bill Ripken, you’ll learn how to do the following:

Implement the Ripken Way of instruction

Understand and meet your responsibilities as a coach

Communicate effectively with players, parents, and officials

Set age-appropriate goals for your team

Provide for a safe playing environment and respond to injuries

Help your players understand the importance of fitness and living an active lifestyle

Understand the basic rules of the game

Appreciate the important role practice plays in player development

Create age-appropriate practice plans

Make practice more fun and interactive

Communicate and shape the game’s basic fundamentals

Prepare for and coach on game day

Communicate and implement the game’s basic strategies

The course is supplemented by more than 200 pages of material. As you proceed through the course, links to pertinent sections of the online book will be provided. Simply click the link. The text will be downloaded as a PDF document, which you can either read on your screen or print.

The course includes many interactive exercises featuring audio clips and Flash animation activities that apply and enrich concepts from the reading material. The course also includes a handy Coach’s Clipboard feature that brings together the many PDF forms, documents, and detailed plans for successful practice sessions and game-day coaching into one handy reference. The course concludes with an online 30-question test.

In short, this course should quickly become your best friend as you prepare for your season. As you move through it, you won’t have to toss and turn at night, trying to figure out what you’re going to do at your first practice, or how you’re going to communicate with and teach your players, because you’ll be prepared to do these things!

Babe Ruth League, Inc., Ripken Baseball, Inc. and the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation, Inc., their affiliates and their respective officers and agents cannot control who goes through the certification process as it is open to all interested coaches. Babe Ruth League, Inc. requires all of its coaches to have background checks. First Advantage is the official background check company for Babe Ruth League, Inc. Contact Monique Tuff from First Advantage at monique.tuff@fadv.com for how your local league can be set up to perform checks for your local league volunteers.